Soil Rubbings (soil and grass on raw cotton)
A week is a modular, suspended installation composed of seven soil rubbings on raw cotton. Each rubbing was made in the same place on seven consecutive days.
A soil rubbing is a technique I developed in which a place is recorded through touch. A support such as paper or cotton is laid onto the ground and moved directly against the soil. By positioning the support face-down, the side visible to me remains blank, letting go of control over the visual result. Soil, grass, and organic matter are transferred onto the surface through the movement of my body, leaving a physical trace of presence, time, and place.
Repeated over the course of one week in the same location, the series registers an ordinary segment of existence in a continuous flux of being, where each instant remains both singular and part of an ongoing circulation.
Suspended in a sequence, the panels act as a single organism, composed of seven organs of the same event. Through their proximity and partial permeability, the seven surfaces form a threshold where duration is experienced as an overlap: the semi-transparency of the cotton allows the work to be perceived as a compenetrating structure, mirroring our lived experience of time as non-fixed and non-linear, but porous, as each day interweaves with the others.
